The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-12
NEWS In BRIEF.

-Olvet, D. T., has a woman barber.
Serpent skin is coming INTO fashion
as a covering for books.
Paris recently reached q record of
300 divorces in one day.
An unsteady man, like an unsteady
light, is apt to go out nights.
The colleges OF this country con-
tain 5000 female students.
"A Spaniard has turned the whole
Bible into poetry, 260, 900 stanzas.
Newspapers published in Dakota
average one for every 1900 population.
California reports a production of
nearly $25, 000, 900 worth Of candy last
year.
The president of the Fat Mems
association, of Jersey City, weighs 4lG
pounds.
"A Greenwood, S. c., farmer claims
to have struck a gold mine on his plan
tatlon.
Ten cents is the price set on the
head of the crow found in the State Of
Maine.
1t was In the ninth century that a
navy was organized by Alfred the
Great.
The three most brilliant centuries
of Egyptian history were from 1900 to
1900 B. G.
Prof. Hughe3 says a silk ribbon is
a better lightning conductor than a
metallic rod.
The heart of a citizen Of Coneordia,
Kan, is reported to be clear over on
the left side.
England derives its name from the
Angles, a Teutonic people who won a
home in Britain.
La Porte, Ind, has a toboggan
slide LOGO feet long, SAID to be the long
est one in the west.
-Twenty-seven hundred japanese
are stated to have emigrated to the
Hawaiian Islands.
--Montezuma, Kan, offers to deed a
town lot to the first couple Il at will
marry in their town.
Cougars have made their appear
ance IN large numbers lately in the
Blue mountains of Oregon.
"A farmer in Delaware county, n.
y, has a pork barrel that has been in
constant use for 160 years.
Farmer Bates Of Hand county, Dr.
T., has started an order to be knOwD
as the Knights Of Agriculture.
-Freemasons throughout the United
! SfafaG rainiaa fn Hpnm fhnt Tho s,pa1t
List was a member of the craft.
"A Newark, N. j., woman has been
Fostering the police authorities for an
appointment on the detective force.
The water works company of Santa
Rosa, Cal, has set out $50 olive trees
on the land surrounding the reservoir.
Denver, COL, is stated to be the
highest State capital in the Union. Its
elevation is 5l75 feet above the sea
level.
1t is claimed that San Diego county,
CAL, is raising raisins that can compete
successfully with those produced in
Spain.
The citizens of Oswego, Kan,
raised $1,000 in half a day for the pur-
pose of sinking a shaft in search of gas
and coal.
Steam pipes. by a local ordinance,
must be kept at a distance of three
inches from any woodwork IN San
Francisco.
Mo rains have fallen In Crawford
county, Kansas, for sixteen months, it
is stated, and water sells there for 40
cents a barrel.
The beggars of Rome, it is estl-
mated, receive $4,000, 900 a year, and
500 are said to be worth from SIS, COO
to 500, 900 each.
France boasts of the Oldest old
maid In the world. She is 100 years
old and lives at Auch. Her name is
Mile. Benolte.
-Artesian wells are being bored by
the city OF Savannah, Ga, for the pur-
pose of obtaining the water supply for
the entire city.
intellectual Boston chews more
spruce gum than any other city in the
country. but intellectual Chicago comes
next on the list.
New York boys have the Buffalo
Bill craze, and are practicing lasso
throwing with disastrous effects in
some Instances.
There are 300 people In the neigh
borhood OF Bennington, VT, engaged
IN gathering spruce gum for three deal
ers in that place.
"A merchant at San Diego. Cal.
recently received an order from an in
terror village for a Bible, bowie knife
and pack Of cards.
Among the dishes at a royal ban.
quet In England was "wild duck with
orange sauce" which is something new
in the ~gustatory line,
There is said to be a tree in New
Guinea which, when touched, knocks a
man down, and Tid-BitS thinks it must
be a species of lockwood.
The Project of the Seine allows 500
excursionists a day to visit the sewers
and catacombs in aid of the sufferers
from the floods 10 tho south Of France